LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leaders of Mali’s military have released interim president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane from detention following intervention from former President Goodluck Jonathan who is the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Mali. The former President had travelled to Bamako on Tuesday to meet with the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, some kinsmen and political allies of former President Goodluck Jonathan have intensified their moves to woo the former Nigerian leader into the race. According to Jonathan’s political allies both in Bayelsa and outside the state, Nigerians still need the former president’s quality leadership and would overwhelmingly…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo truncated the ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to become the running mate to Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who was the APC presidential candidate in 2015. Oyinlola explained…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has said that restructuring alone can not solve Nigeria’s problems and cannot be done in isolation. The former President called for the issues of nepotism, ethnic and religious bias to be addressed. He stated this on Thursday while speaking at a dialogue on restructuring in Abuja….
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has asked the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abba, to make available details of all cases concerning former first lady, Patience Jonathan. A presidency source revealed that Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, gave the directive…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The perceived second term presidential ambition of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, may have run into a hitch as an Igbo group yesterday said the former president is constitutionally barred by from contesting for the position by the 1999 Constitution (Fourth Alternation). The Vice Chairman and Director of Igbo Leadership Development Foundation…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be undecided yet about returning to office in 2023 when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term. Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015, may not end soon as Dr Jonathan could not give a definite…
By Dr. Law Mefor LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)–A political thinker posited that politics is a concentric circle of conspiracies. It is such a conspiratorial game that while statesmen worry about development to cater for the present and coming generations, politicians are busy scheming how to retain power, return to power, or gain power. Nigerian politicians…